Button.



P. M. MAHLBERG.

BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED rfa. I2` IsIu.

1 ,$372,829. Patented July 16, 1918.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2y FIG. I3.

`UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER M. MAHLBERG, OF HGPKINS, MINNESOTA.

BUTTON.

Application filed February 12, 1918.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that l, PETER M. MAHLnuo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hopkins, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Button, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fancy dress buttons, and a method for making the same consisting of covering ordinary buttons or plates 0f various sizes and shapes, by winding a strand of thread continuously upon them in sucha way that each winding of thread (except the last one) will be crossed by two or more other windings of thread and will thus be held in place and kept from. slipping oi the button. A further object is to be able to create any desired one of a large Variety of fancy designs by following various specific arrangements in winding the thread and also by substituting, at intervals, strands of various colors of thread.

In the accompan ing drawings, Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and are face views of buttons of various sizes and shapes and embodying my invention in a variety of designs. Fig. 8 is a rear view of the button shown in either Fig. 1 or Fig. 4. Fig. 9 is an enlar ed face view of the button shown in Fig. showing how the first series of windings are executed when a hexagonal. button is to be covered. Fig. 10 is a view of the button shown in Fig. 9, showing it partly covered. Fig. 11 shows a side or edge view of the button shown in Fig. 7. This view also illustrates substantially how any one of the buttons may look when seen from the side. Fig. 12 shows a round button about to be covered only the first few threads being shown as Wound on it and illustrating one of a number of designs adapted to be used with round buttons. Fig. 13 shows the button in Fi 12 partly covered and Fig. 14 shows it ully covered and thus completed.

As the variety of designs, adapted to be used in thus covering buttons is so great as to be practically inexhaustib e it is impossible to take up each in detail and explain its arrangement of winding from start to iinish. However, the general method of winding can be sufficiently understood from Figs. 9 and 12.

In Fig. 9, where a hexagonal button or late 15 is to be covered, a thread of soft iieavy silk o r similar quality is started at Specieation oi' Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1918.

Serial No. 216,728.

the underside of thc button at its center O where that end is held. From O it is brought as indicated by the successive numerals 1 to 12, to the corner A, from A over t0 C, C under to F, over to B, under to E, over to A, under to D, over to F, under to (l, over to E, under to B, over to D, under to center; from thence to A to C ete. VVheu this series of windings has been executed five times the button will appear as in Fig. 10. And when the series has been repeated until the button is covered (usine a eolorelfl thread the last two times) it willD appear as in Fig. 7 with the six-armed colored spider 16 ornamenting it.

To produce the triangular design shown in Fig. 14 0n a round button, it is necessary to follow the hexagonal diagram as delineated in Fig. 12; in which, the thread is started at the rear of the button at its center O, and is then wound as indicated by the numerals 1 to 14; from under to A, and over to D, from D under to B, over to E, under te C, over to F, under to D, over to A, under to C, over to F, under to B, over to E, from E under to A, and starting again from A over to D, etc. The button partly covered. appears as in Fig. 13.

Said Fig. 13 serves to illustrate the rcsulting crossing arrangement of threads which serves to hind them and hold them in place. Thus each strand in the series HCF K is twice crossed by corresponding strands in the two series ADHG and EKGB. In Fig. 3 each strand, except the last few, is covered by at least 5 or G corresponding strands.

The back of each button may be sewed as in Fig. 8 where the end of the strand or a new thread M is sewed and tied around groups of strands or merely sewed in and out through the bump N caused by the continuous crossin of strands (see Figs. 8 and 11) and thus orms a substantial and iirm part which may be utilized in sewin the button onto a garment by stitches as in Fi 11. g

n winding the button shown in Fig. 2, the winding thread is started, as in all cases, from below or at the rear side of the plate; is then looped over one of the corners, say at 17, is then brought underneath the plate to corner 18 where it makes a loop or turn over the corner, crossing the thread first placed below it it is extended to corner 19, and thence to 17, thence to 18 and 19, etc.,

euch time making :1 hoger and larger loop 20 about the cord, until the thread passes over the middle oif the plete when its layers or ruim will uppeur u the portions 2l of the button.

In Figs. 1 und l the thread is wound in similar manner as in Fig. 3 from the corriere inward and h v using thread oi' u different color, in lhe first few \\indings, my red thread, wo get the red @omero 22 in Fig 5 and by using Say white thread for the moin lood).7 23 am.L u blue thread in the liniashiigig strands 24 the button will be red, white and blue. In `siliiilzir nmnner any of the buttons may be lnzide very ornamental and attractive by changing the oolor of the thread in the various pur-1s of the winding or covering of the button. Thus the plain round button shown in Fig. (i muy have any desired number of colors in its valriouly distributed radial portions of its covering.

T lie button in Fig. 3 is Wound on so nearly the same principle as Figs. 9, 10 und 12 llmli 'it needs no special description.

The body' plato ofthe button may he mudo of Wood, metal, aluminum, stiff oord boul-d or any other suitable nmteriul. 'lhe weaker l'nzxteriul being good enough where the buiton is intended only ue a purl of the lriinmllg ol'iztmilfim H garment und lulu stronger nmterial `'or bnltone4 intended 1o he used us garment ifkhers.

what l claim is:

A bwtmm coiisising of :L substantially llad,

piece of stiff motorini, a thread wound about the some in 'a fanciful manner to fox-n1 e euvorin for said button, said thread Crossing ileel u, mnnher of times at the center of the boek sido of the button, whereby a hump is formed, seid bump of thread adapted lo be used in sewing the button to u gariint.

In bestimooy whereof' I aliix my signature.

PETER M. MAHLBER-G.

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